Re: Wheel "\|/-" instead of dots "......"

[Mario Klebsch]

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On Thursday, 31. January 2002 12:14, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> While I understand what you mean, I don't think the rolling bar is
> good, either. When running "cat", it was just annoying to see several
> marks with the real contents of a file.

Is the size of the file known prior to downloading it?

If yes, grub could have a relative progress indicator, e.g. 50 chars
wide, each chars for 2% of the download.

It shpould be possible to implement this progress indicator without
having to use /r or /b.

73, Mario
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